User blog comment:Biggren/The Northern March/@comment-1298206-20130321015219/@comment-3135907-20130325144149

Around threescore rats originally entered the water, but with the friends' combined attacks their numbers have been reduced to forty-eight. Forty-seven, actually, as the rat Segalia attacked turned too late to avoid a killing blow with her long dagger, and forty-six after a rat had his throat torn out by Larana's bare teeth. Gruffle drags himself out on the bank opposite the water rats. "C'mere, mates! There's too many of `em, cummon up on this bank where we's kin get our bearin's straight!" Banglo is already there, nimbly climbing a crack willow to a point from which he can snipe the rats in the water with his bow.